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A flooded chemical plant near Houston that was left without power was rocked by two explosions early Thursday – unleashing noxious fumes that sent a police deputy to the hospital, officials said. Arkema Inc. reported that the Harris County officials notified it about the blasts, which sent black smoke spewing from the plant in Crosby,...

An official says the fire is out at a chemical plant near Houston but they are monitoring the site for more blazes. Explosions and fires rocked the flood-crippled Arkema Inc. plant in Crosby early Thursday. The plant’s owners warned more explosions could follow because a loss of refrigeration was causing chemicals stored there to degrade...

WAWAYANDA, N.Y. (AP) — Oscar-nominated actor James Cromwell is heading to jail in New York for blocking traffic to protest a power plant.A town judge sentenced the 77-year-old Cromwell and two fellow protesters to a week in the Orange County Jail for civil disobedience at the construction site of a 650-megawatt natural gas-fired power plant in December 2015.

Video shows a raging fire at the Texas chemical plant where two explosions occurred earlier this week. The massive fire at the Arkema Inc. plant in Crosby spit thick black smoke into the air Friday evening — one day after a container of organic peroxides exploded at the facility. An Arkema executive had warned that...

Authorities have started a controlled burn of remaining containers of highly unstable chemicals at a flooded Houston-area chemical plant following explosions last week. Six trailers of volatile compounds that remain underwater at the Arkema Inc. Plant in Crosby, Texas will be disposed of, the Harris County Fire Marshal’s Office said in a statement Sunday. The...